A corvette is a small warship. It is traditionally the smallest class of vessel considered to be a proper warship. The warship class above the corvette is that of the frigate, while the class below was historically that of the sloop-of-war.
Skjold-class corvettes are a class of six light, superfast, stealth missile corvettes in service with the Royal Norwegian Navy. The boats were formerly classed as MTBs but, from 2009, the Royal Norwegian Navy has described them as corvettes (korvett) because their seaworthiness is seen as comparable to corvettes, and because they do not carry torpedoes. They were built at the Umoe Mandal yard. With a maximum speed of 60 knots (110 km/h), the Skjold-class corvettes were the fastest combat ships afloat at the time of their introduction., as of 2023 beaten by the Abu Dhabi MAR WP-18 Interceptor.
The Hauk-class patrol boats were a series of Norwegian fast attack craft. Hauk means hawk in Norwegian. They were ordered in the 1970s and the first boat, Hauk, was commissioned on 17 August 1977. Designed as a development of the Storm and Snøgg classes, by Lieutenant commander Harald Henriksen, the 14 Hauk-class vessels made up the Coastal Combat Flotilla, responsible for protecting the rugged coastline of Norway. The ships were modernized frequently and in their later form were known as "Super-Hauks." The Royal Norwegian Navy deployed four of these warships for anti-terror patrol in the Strait of Gibraltar.
The Storm-class patrol boat was a series of fast patrol boats (FPB) consisting of 20 vessels built for the Royal Norwegian Navy.
The Rapp-class torpedo boats were a class of six torpedo boats built in Norway for the Royal Norwegian Navy from 1952 to 1956. They were the first Norwegian-built torpedo boats after World War II, and were designed in light of experience from operations in this war. The boats were slightly larger than the Elco class.
A/S Westermoen Båtbyggeri og Mek Verksted was a shipyard located in Mandal, Norway. Under the leadership of Toralf Westermoen in the 1950s, the yard has produced a long range of high speed boat types, such as:
Toralf Westermoen was a pioneer for the development of high speed craft in Norway. Westermoen was involved in the companies Båtservice Verft, Westermoen Båtbyggeri og Mek. Verksted , Westermoen Hydrofoil and Westamarin , all situated in Mandal.
Jan Herman Linge was a Norwegian engineer and boat designer.
The Brave-class fast patrol boats were a class of two gas turbine motor torpedo boats (MTBs) that were the last of their type for the Royal Navy (RN) Coastal Forces division. They formed the basis for a series of simpler boats which were widely built for export.
HNoMS Nasty was a fast attack craft of the Royal Norwegian Navy, built as a private venture by Westermoen Båtbyggeri of Mandal, Norway. Designed by Jan Herman Linge she was an experimental craft, of wooden hull construction, launched in 1958. Nasty served with the Royal Norwegian Navy and was the prototype for the navies Tjeld class patrol boats. Boats to Nasty's design were also built for the US and German navies. Nasty was stricken in 1967.
The Nasty class of fast patrol boats were a set of 20 vessels built for the United States Navy to a Norwegian design and purchased in the 1960s for covert operations during the Vietnam War. Following the conflict they remained in service until the early 1980s.
For other ship classes of the same name see Nasty-type patrol boat
For other ship classes of the same name see Nasty-type patrol boat
The Greek Tjeld type patrol boats were a set of six fast patrol boats built to a Norwegian design and operated by the Hellenic Navy during the 1960s and early 1970s.
The Tjeld class was a class of twenty fast patrol boats designed and built for the Royal Norwegian Navy in the late 1950s. They were used as torpedo boats in Norway where this type of vessel were called MTBs or motor torpedo boats (motortorpedobåt). They remained in service until the late 1970s, when they were placed in reserve; all were stricken by 1995.
The La Combattante II patrol boat was a type of fast attack craft built in France for export during the 1970s. Some 37 were built in various classes for several navies around the world.
PTF-3 is United States Nasty-class patrol boat, now a museum ship at the DeLand Naval Air Station Museum, DeLand, Florida. PTF-3 is called Fast and Nasty. PTF-3 was built in 1962 by the Westermoen Båtbyggeri in Mandal, Norway. PTF-3 is small river gunboat built with an aluminium hull. The United States Navy used PTF-3 in the Vietnam War from 1962 to 1966 in the Brown-water navy. PTF-3 has a top speed of speed of 38 knots. She is a Nasty-class patrol boat at 80 ft 4 in (24.49 m) long. PTF Boats replace the wooden World War II PT boats. The PTF-3 was armed with two Oerlikon 20 mm cannon, .50 caliber Browning machine gun and 81mm mortar "Piggyback". PTF 3 and PTF-4 were delivered to the U.S. Navy in 1963 at Little Creek, Virginia. The two boats were tested at Little Creek. Training on the boat started on May 3, 1963 at Naval Base Coronado. PTF 3 and PTF-4 departed Coronado on September 17th loaded on USS Point Defiance) a Landing Ship Dock ship. Point Defiance took the boats to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and then to U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay in the Philippines. At Subic Bay the boats were upgraded and then shipped to Ðà Nẵng Vietnam on the USS Carter Hall. But PTF-3 suffered major damage to its hull during loading and was repaired at Subic Bay arriving at Ðà Nẵn February, 1964. PTF 3 became a Spook Boat, operated by MAC V SOG, Maritime Special Ops. PTF 3 was one of 6 PTF boats that did raids in North Vietnam, attacking shore installations and landing special operations teams. PTF-3 took part in the 1964 Tonkin Gulf Incident and had mission in Vietnam 9 years. On July 31, 1964 PTF-3 and other boats took part in landing two teams of South Vietnamese commandos on the North Vietnamese held small island of Hon Me, the start of the Tonkin Gulf incident, that lead to the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. In 1966 she was transferred to the South Vietnamese Navy. In 1970 she was returned to US Navy and had missions in Cuba and Nicaragua working with the CIA based in Diver Training Facility at Key West Florida. In 1977 she was remove from the US Navy and sold in 1978. From 1978 to 2001 she was docked in South Florida unused with no engines. In December 2001 she started used as Sea Scout ship in Orange City, Florida, purchased in Fort Lauderdale, Florida by Bill Norton of General Propulsion who donated the boat to Boy Scout Troop 544 in December 2001. Troop 544 started a non- profit, 501c3 corporation: PTF 3 Restoration Project, Inc, to handle the restoration. In May 2003 PTF-3 was moves to DeLand Naval Air Station Museum for restoration, arriving on 29 July 2003 with honor guard of Veterans.
PTF boat, are fast United States Navy patrol boats introduced in the early part of the Vietnam War. The PTF designation was give to 26 boats with four different boat designs. The PTF boats were the Vietnam War "brown water" river boats version of the World War II PT boats. They were heavily armed gunboats that were used by the US Navy and by Special forces. The first two PTF boats were commissioned 21 December 1962. The last two PTF were commissioned on 8 April 1968. PFT boats were replaced by the new Patrol Craft Fast (PCF) boats that were more widely used in Vietnam. There are five PTF boats that have survived and are in various state of restoration. The Torpedo Boat, Fast designation is a hold over from World War II, as PTF boats were not equipped with torpedoes, as they were mostly used in shallow river waters.
